Obama in NYC: “Brilliant sun shone down on the baseball fields where the helicopters landed and kicked up dirt on the infield. The POTUS walked across the infield to the waiting limousine.” [Celeste Katz]

Strategy: Schumer caught saying, “I always use the word extreme…That is what the caucus instructed me to use this week.” [Jennifer Steinhauer]

State Budget: “The Cuomo budget, which was negotiated in secret, is a virtual war on the middle class, working people, and the poor,” writes Alan Singer, a social studies educator from Hofstra University. [HuffPo]

State Budget: Silver says he worked with Cuomo, not defeated by him. “it’s probably more like a tag team. Democrats against Republicans.” [NY1]